Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Summary: The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner (Jonathan Cape (1929 / Vintage Classics)). (Stub — expand from highlights.)
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Last updated: 2026-05-07
Quotes
Consciousness and Time
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire… I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.” (p. 76)
Identity and Memory
“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.” (p. 1 - Benjy’s fragmented cognition)